Tri Delta
True or False? Tri Delta is the top fundraising non-profit organization in the nation.
True
True or False? True or False? St. Jude is where doctors often send their toughest cases, because St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for some of the most aggressive forms of childhood cancers.
True
True or False? Families of child cancer patients at St. Jude will always receive a bill for treatment, housing, travel, and food.
False
About ___% of children with cancer live in low- and middle-income countries where they lack access to adequate diagnosis and treatment. Most of these children will die from their disease.
90%
Where is St. Jude Children's Hospital located?
Memphis, TN
When did Tri Delta officially adopt St. Jude as its national philanthropic partner?
November 1999
St. Jude reports a ___% survival rate for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia using therapy that does not include radiation.
94%
How many states does St. Jude treat children from?
All 50
___% of children with cancer worldwide lack access to proper diagnosis and treatment.
80%
Founder of St. Jude Children's Hospital
Danny Thomas
In 25 years of partnership, Tri Delta has raised how much for St. Jude Children’s Hospital?
$100 million
Treatments invented at St. Jude has pushed the overall childhood cancer survival rate from ___% to ___%.
20%-80%
A $10 donation can provide _______ for a child staying at St Jude.
A new toy
How many children and adolescents in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer every week?
Over 290.
On what date did St Jude open its doors?
February 4th, 1962.
What is the Tri Delta Place?
An apartment style living building for patient families.
St. Jude conducts more _________ _______ for cancer than any other children’s hospital across the U.S.
clinical trials
What is St. Jude's mission statement?
Finding cures. Saving children.
How many children and adolescence develop cancer each year?
400,000
St. Jude doctors and researchers help children in how many countries?
17
What is Tri Delta's next goal for St. Jude?
Raising another $100 million by 2038.
What year did St. Jude begin sickle cell disease research?
1977
What is St. Jude's goal in upcoming years?
St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent.
What percentage of childhood cancer is diagnosed in an timely manner?
only 50%
What disease did St. Jude use gene therapy to cure?
SCID-X1 or "bubble boy" disease